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yard. It represents on one side the Holy Family, on the other our Lord's crucifixion, with figures at the ends; and has recently been erected upon three steps of stone. The eastern window of the Trenwith aisle is filled with plain quarries of stained glass; beneath is inscribed, running along the glass over the sill of the window the following words :-" Humbly offered by Robert Hichens, 1849." Two very handsome windows have been erected at the east end of the north and south aisle. They are of three lights each. In that at the east end of the north aisle are contained the following designs:In the tracery lights-two angels holding scrolls, on which are inscribed the words, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men." In the lights between the monials are the initials of the donors (members of the Hichens' family), the winged lion of S. Mark, and the angel of S. Matthew; a representation of the storm on the sea, displaying the ship, with one of the apostles in it, our LORD walking on the sea, S. Peter sinking, and the inscription, "It is I; be not afraid." In the window at the east end of the south aisle, which is also of three lights, are the following subjects: the HOLY DOVE; two angels; the initials of the donors (also members of the Hichens' family ); the winged bull of S. Luke, and the eagle of S. John; and a representation of our LORD standing beside a door and knocking thereon, with this inscription-" Behold, I stand at the door, and knock."

THE saintly IA, or HYA, to whom the church and parish are dedicated, came over from Ireland with other saints, and landed hereabouts. She founded a church here. But I have not room in this chapter to tell you all the good deeds of S. Ia, or the good works of the brother and sister saints who came over with her in the next chapter, however, I hope to speak of her more at length. The parish of S. Ives is cut off from that of S. Uny, Lelant, as is also that of Towednack, of which

I shall tell you presently. The pilchard fishery is carried on with great spirit at S. Ives, and great quantities are caught almost every year, and exported to the Italian markets. Men are stationed on the hills, who watch for the fish, and, when they see any, give the alarm, by crying-" Heva, Heva:" they then direct the boats to the spot by making signs with signals called "bushes." Thousands of hogsheads are often caught at one time. These are "tucked," carried ashore, and stored with salt in the cellars, till all the oil has run out of them, when they are packed in hogsheads, and got ready or export.

2. TOWEDNACK.

THIS IS a small parish cut off from that of S. Uny, Lelant. THE CHURCH is small, and consists of nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch, and a low tower: there is a good font. Halsetown, a small village in this parish, has a clergyman and chapel of its own.

3. ZENNOR.

A MOST romantic and hilly parish; an ancient cromlech still exists on one of the hills. The church is plain, and sadly mutilated. It consists of a nave, chancel, north aisle, tower, south porch, and south transept,

F. C. H.

DIARY OF A JOURNEY THROUGH KENT, WITH MY FRIEND, A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

(Continued from page 316.)

IN OUR first chapter we pointed to the rook's nest at the corner of Wood-street, Cheapside, and before leaving Woodstreet we should have mentioned that the Church of S. Alban, in Wood-street, attracts particular notice. It was first founded about the time of Athelstan, the Saxon king, and dedicated to S. Alban, who was the proto-martyr of England, about the year 300. Stow observes, this church was

very ancient, not only from its dedication to S. Alban, the manner of turning the arches of the windows and capitals of the pillars, and the Roman bricks interspersed among the stones of the building, but also from the probability "that it was at least of as ancient standing as King Adelstan, the Saxon, who began his reign about 924, and, as tradition says, had his house at the east end thereof, and having a door into Adel-street, in this parish, gave name to the same street which in all ancient evidences is written King Adel-street. One great tower of this house was then remaining to be seen at the north corner of Love-lane, as you came from Aldermanbury, which tower was of the very same stone and building with S. Alban's Church."

MATTHEW PARIS seems to think, the chapel and the Royal Palace of King Offa were contiguous to this house, but, through the carelessness and sloth of his successors, and the unjust seizing and encroaching thereon by neighbouring citizens, reduced, though still retaining its ancient liberty, to a small house. This church, almost in ruins, was rebuilt in 1634, but being consumed by the dreadful fire in 1666, was re-erected and finished in 1685. In the present structure the Ionic order prevails, both in the external and in the interior. It is wainscotted round with Norway oak. The front of a gallery at the west end of this church is a very large bolection with raised pannels, in which is a very good organ; also a door-case, and a spacious arch under the gallery, opening into the nave of the church.

THE pulpit is finely carved in imitation of fruit and leaves; the sounding board is a hexagon, surrounded by a handsome cornice, adorned cherubim, and other embellishments; the inside is neatly veneered.

THE altar-piece is highly ornamented, and consists of four columns, fluted, with their vases, pedestals, entablature, and open pediment of the Corinthian order; over each column upon acrotars, is a lamp with a gilded taper; and above the

cornice the arms of England, with the supporters, helmet, and crest, richly carved; under a triangular pediment, on the north and south sides of these ornaments are two large cartouches, carved in fine wainscot.

THIS church is well pewed with oak; here are two large brass branches, and a neat marble font enriched with cherubims, &c. The tower is of stone, built square; the eight acroterial pinnacles are of the gothic order; the height of the tower is eighty-five feet and a-half, and the top of the pinnacle is ninety-two feet. The church is in length about sixty-six feet; breadth, fifty-nine; and height, thirty-three.

DURING the reign of Edward III. the patronage of this rectory was in the master, brethren, and sisters of the Hospital of S. James, Westminster, and continued so till the foundation of Eton College by Henry VI., when the presentation was transferred to the provost and fellows of that college, in which it still continues. The old church contained the monument of Sir John Chetre, preceptor to Edward VI., with a Latin inscription.

AMONG the rectors of eminence was William Watts, D.D., a native of Lynn, in Norfolk, and a member of Caius College, Cambridge, an admirable critic and divine. Charles I. appointed him one of his chaplains; he was also chaplain to the Earl of Arundel, general of the Scottish expedition in 1639. He was afterwards prebendary of Wells, but being sequestered from his benefice, plundered, his wife and children turned out of doors, and himself compelled to fly for his life, he joined the k ng, and was appointed chaplain to Prince Rupert. He was present with him in all the battles he fought with the parliamentarians, and attended him at the blockade of Kinsale, where he died in 1649. He greatly assisted in Spelman's Glossary, and added considerable notes to Matthew Paris's Historia Major, which he published in 1640: a catalogue of several other learned works which he published is to be seen in Wood's Athenæ Oxoniensis.

At the corner of Huggin-lane, in Wood-street, is the church of St. Michael, which also deserves our notice. It appears that, in the thirty-third of Edward III., A.D. 1359, Richard de Basingstoke, by his last will and testament, gave all his tenements in the parish of St. Lawrence, Jewry, to the rector of St. Michael and four of his parishioners, to find two chaplains to say mass for the souls of himself and relations, out of which they were to pay them for so doing, eight marks per annum. These chaplains after the death of his executors, were to be presented, from time to time, by the rector and the four parishioners, who were to have half a mark yearly for their pains, and the overplus of the rent was to defray the expense attending the repairs of a chantry which Richard de Basingstoke had already founded there.

The old structure having been burned in the fire of London, the new one, which is of stone, was erected. It is of the Ionic order, the roof flat and quadrangular, covered with lead, the windows only on the south side and east end, the floor paved with stone, and the chancel one step higher than the rest of the church; the body is divided into three aisles The roof is adorned with fret and crochet work; the walls with arches and imposts; the front towards Wood Street, with spacious stone pilasters, their entablature and pitched pediments of the Ionic order. The church is wainscotted eight feet high, and pewed with oak, of which also the pulpit is made, being veneered, and having enrichments of cherubim festoons, &c. The altar-piece is also ornamented. The tower seems to be part of the old church, on which was a turret, since altered into an awkward and inelegant spire. The tower and spire are about one hundred and twenty feet in height; the length of the church within is sixty-three feet, breadth forty-two, alttiude forty-one.

Here, it is asserted, was buried the head of James the Fourth of Scotland, killed in the battle of Flodden Field, Sept. 9, 1513, and his body embalmed, and brought to Sheen,

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